Genres, Movements & Theory
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Abstract Photography
Photography that emphasises form, colour, texture and pattern over the identification of its subject.
Genres, Movements & TheoryAdvertising Photography
Photography commissioned to promote a product, service or brand.
Genres, Movements & TheoryAerial Photography
Photography made from an elevated platform — aircraft, helicopter, drone or kite — looking down on the subject.
Genres, Movements & TheoryArchitectural Photography
Photography of buildings and structures, concerned with form, space and the accurate rendering of geometry.
Genres, Movements & TheoryAstrophotography
Photography of the night sky, from wide-field starscapes to magnified images of deep-sky objects.
Genres, Movements & TheoryAura
Walter Benjamin's term for the unique presence of an original artwork, which he argued mechanical reproduction dissolves.
Genres, Movements & TheoryBody of Work
A sustained group of photographs unified by subject, approach or idea, developed over an extended period.
Genres, Movements & TheoryCaption and Context
The text and setting accompanying a photograph, which largely determine how it is understood.
Genres, Movements & TheoryConceptual Photography
Photography in which the governing idea precedes and directs the image, rather than the image being discovered.
Genres, Movements & TheoryConsent and Privacy
The question of when a person's permission is required to photograph them and to publish the result.
Genres, Movements & TheoryDocumentary Photography
Photography that records a subject, community or situation over time with the intention of describing it truthfully.
Genres, Movements & TheoryDüsseldorf School
A group of German photographers taught by Bernd and Hilla Becher, known for large-format, systematic and often very large-scale work.
Genres, Movements & TheoryEditorial Photography
Photography made to accompany published text — articles, features and interviews — rather than to advertise.
Genres, Movements & TheoryEnvironmental Portrait
A portrait made in a setting that tells the viewer something about the subject's life, work or identity.
Genres, Movements & TheoryEvent Photography
Photography documenting conferences, parties, ceremonies and corporate functions.
Genres, Movements & TheoryFarm Security Administration
A United States government programme of the 1930s and 40s that commissioned photographers to document rural poverty during the Depression.
Genres, Movements & TheoryFashion Photography
Photography made to present clothing and to construct a mood or identity around it.
Genres, Movements & TheoryFine Art Photography
Photography made primarily as an expressive work rather than to document, illustrate or sell a product.
Genres, Movements & TheoryFood Photography
Photography of prepared food, for menus, packaging, editorial and cookbooks.
Genres, Movements & TheoryGroup f/64
A short-lived association of West Coast American photographers formed in 1932 to advocate sharp, unmanipulated photography.
Genres, Movements & TheoryHeadshot
A tightly framed portrait of the head and shoulders, made for professional identification and representation.
Genres, Movements & TheoryHumanist Photography
A postwar movement, strongest in France, that photographed ordinary life with warmth and an emphasis on shared human experience.
Genres, Movements & TheoryIndexicality
The property of a photograph as a physical trace of light reflected from a real object, rather than a depiction made by hand.
Genres, Movements & TheoryInterior Photography
Photography of the inside of buildings, balancing artificial light, daylight and the character of a space.